OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)At the age of 36, following a brief visit to his hometown, Fukuzawa Yukichi drafted A Letter of Farewell from Nakatsu. It was 1871 and Fukuzawa had already gained extensive experience, not least through his travels abroad, ...
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(2024)This contribution examines Mishima’s first trip abroad, undertaken as a correspondent for the Asahi shinbun between 1951 and 1952. The account of this experience is contained in Aporo no sakazuki, a sort of diary in which ...
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(2024)Over two million years ago, when beings identifiable as belonging to the human species left their first traces on the planet, insects had already been present for approximately four hundred million years. Whether airborne, ...
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(2024)This essay explores the role of sake in ancient Japan. Drawing from a plurality of texts, with a particular emphasis on the poems collected in the Man’yōshū anthology, the essay will illuminate the multifaceted cultural ...
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(2024)The paper primarily centres around the volume titled Out of Sight. Fukushima à l’abri du regard. Aimaina sōshitsu, which was published in France in 2020. This composite volume features a collection of photographs by French ...
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Chapter Il tema del vino nella poesia di Sugawara no Michizane. Analisi testuale e storico-culturale(2024)The paper centres on the poetic works of Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) and explores the theme of wine. By examining a selection of compositions that feature wine as a subject or involve characters like sake 酒 or yoi 酔, ...
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(2024)The way in which Ono no Komachi’s personal collection (Komachishū) loosely shapes her “life” is believed to have been influenced not only by stories and legends that were orally transmitted soon after her death, but also ...
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(2024)The heron (sagi) holds a cherished place among avian figures in Japanese culture, although it has received less scholarly attention compared to other birds. Its significance can be traced back to some of the oldest surviving ...
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(2024)Neko Machi (City of Cats, 1935) is a peculiar short story that occupies a relatively unique space within Hagiwara Sakutarō’s oeuvre. Within this narrative, a protagonist plagued by a poor sense of direction stumbles into ...
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(2024)The summary provides an overview of the essays collected in this volume and places them in the context of research that has innovatively redefined the theme of the “frontier” in the Early Middle Ages in recent decades. In ...
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(2024)Based on the material culture, combined with Frankish and Bavarian written evidence relating to the royal court and Bavarian bishoprics, the ninth-century Bavarian Eastern March and its surroundings is being used as an ...
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(2024)Carolingian influences on the east of Istria and Carniola can be traced since the beginning of the wars against the Avars and the conflict with Byzantium. Papal undertakings in Dalmatia, regarding the revival of ecclesiastical ...
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(2024)By analysing diplomas and judicial documents recording disputes in the Carolingian counties located in the eastern Pyrenees, this chapter aims to analyse how fiscal assets constituted an important political resource for ...
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(2024)Even in relation to the history of documentation – given its nature as legal history, social history, history of institutions and ideas – we encounter the theme of frontiers, since the latter is inseparable from that of ...
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(2024)The concept of borders, examined from the point of view of the epigraphs, reveals how the use of inscriptions was a well-established strategic device among the elites: in particular, the knowledge of the value and efficacy ...
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(2024)Border pacts are an Italian peculiarity in the early Middle Ages. They indicate the existence of a traditional and specific practice of agreements between different powers coexisting on the Italian territory, which is much ...
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(2024)Studying the extent of the physical space over which papal policy was implemented between the late eighth and ninth centuries is extremely complex. The sources are ambiguous and difficult to interpret: the territory over ...
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(2024)The aim of this article is to analyse the infrastructural investments made by the Franks to pacify Saxony, and to secure the control of the Elbe River territories. I will mostly use the written sources of the Carolingian ...
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(2024)The relative absence of written references to fortifications in the Carolingian Empire is well known, but seems difficult to square with increasing evidence that such buildings were familiar features in the ninth-century ...
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(2024)The essay is divided into two parts. The first part portrays the Upper Adriatic, from Ravenna and Venice to the coastal towns in Istria and Dalmatia, as a unified peripheral area. Despite the shifting political context, ...
